On Feb 24, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Gerd Knops wrote:
On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Nigel Chapman wrote:

I often find that I paste something into a document, then immediately select it to do something to it, like wrapping it in tags or converting characters to entities. Long ago I used an editor (possibly alpha) that had a 'select pasted text' command, that did the selection straight after a paste, without having to drag over it or whatever. I can't find an equivalent command in TextMate, nor any environment variables pointing to the start and end of the latest pasting that would let me implement it myself.

Have I missed something? Either a command in some bundle I don't know about or some other way of achieving the same effect?

If not, here's a feature request. Any one of the following:

Select Pasted Text command
Paste and Select command (extra modifier key on cmd-V)
Select after Pasting preference.

Thanks for any help or pointers.

Easy:

<Paste & Select.tmCommand>

That one breaks if you paste anything with certain reserved characters.

If you have the r 6636 version of the TextMate escape library…
You can use this one instead.
http://pastie.textmate.org/42665

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + "/lib/escape.rb"
print "${0:#{e_snp(`pbpaste`)}}"

If you don't have the latest version of the escape library, you'll have to add
http://pastie.textmate.org/42666

# escape text for use in a TextMate snippet placeholder
def e_snp(str)
str.to_s.gsub(/(?=[$`\\}])/, '\\')
end

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